European Foreign and Security Policy

Course Organization

Professor:
Stephanie Hofmann

 

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Course Description

 

This class focuses on theoretical approaches and analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of European foreign and security policy. We focus on the interactions between member States and EU-institutions, key actors and processes in EU foreign and security policy, EU policies around enlargement, trade and aid, and security, and the changing nature of State sovereignty in the context of European integration.

 

 

 

Requirements

 

 

There are four requirements for the class:

 

1.   Active participation in the seminar discussions is required. Students are expected to attend every class having done the required readings in advance, and to participate actively in discussions.

 

2.   Once during the semester each student will be assigned the role of “authors’ defendant” and should be able to defend the merits of the week’s readings in seminar.

 

3.   Each student will write one weekly discussion paper in advance of our meeting. This paper should range between two and three double-spaced pages, and should be circulated to the entire class via email no later than two days before the class. It should not summarize the weekly readings, but develop an argument around a particular theme of the readings as well as offer some discussion questions.

 

4.   Final paper. The format is 20-25 pages including references and bibliography, using both course materials and other sources. The reading is designed to give you plenty of theoretical ideas (to test or build upon) and plenty of empirical information that you can use as a starting point for your research. The paper should have theoretical implications or it should test observable implications of some extant theory. It is intended to reflect your understanding of particular debates or issues in the field combined with original research and ideas. The topic of the final paper must be discussed with the instructor and approved in advance.

 

Assignments (2) and (3) must be completed on separate weeks; otherwise said, you cannot fulfill both requirements with the same readings.

 

For purposes of evaluation, the final paper is worth 50%, seminar participation counts for 20%, and the short discussion papers and “author’s defendant” assignments are each worth 15%.

 

 

 

Class sessions:

 

24 February Week 1: Introduction

 

No readings

 

 

3 March Week 2: Setting the Stage

 

Keukeleire, Stephan and Jennifer MacNaughtan. 2008. The Foreign Policy of the European Union. Houndsmill: Palgrave. Chapter 2.

 

Howorth, Jolyon. 2005. “From Security to Defence: the Evolution of CFSP.” In Christopher Hill and Michael Smith, eds. International Relations and the European Union, pp. 179-204. New York: OxfordUniversity Press.

 

Jones, Seth G. 2006. “The Rise of European Defense.” Political Science Quarterly 121, 2: 241-267.

 

Rutten, Maartje. 2002. “From Nice to Laeken. European Defence: Core Documents.” Chaillot Paper 51, pp. 32-68.

 

Council of the European Union. 2009. Presidency Report on ESDP. 15 June, 10748/09.

 

 

Part I. Theorizing European integration / governance / institutions

 

10 March Week 3: (Rational) Governments/States as the Main Actor (Realist and Liberal Intergovernmentalist Approaches)

 

Moravcsik, Andrew and Kalypso Nicolaidis. 1999. “Explaining the Treaty of Amsterdam: Interests, Influence, Institutions.” Journal of Common Market Studies 37, 1: 59-85.

 

Grieco, Joseph. 1996. “State Interests and International Rule Trajectories: A Neorealist Interpretation of the Maastricht Treaty and European Economic and Monetary Union.” Security Studies 5, 3: 261-306.

 

Hoffmann, Stanley. 1966. “Obstinate or Obsolete? The Fate of the Nation-State and the Case of Western Europe.” Daedalus 95, 3: 862-915.

 

Applied to European security: Jones, Seth G. 2007. The Rise of European Security Cooperation. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. Introduction and Chapter 1.

 

 

17 March Week 4: Institutions Matter (Neo-Functionalist and Institutionalist Approaches)

 

Bulmer, Simon. 1994. “The Governance of the European Union: A New Institutionalist Approach.” Journal of Public Policy 13, 4: 351-380.

 

Pierson, Paul. 1996. “The Path to European Integration: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis.” Comparative Political Studies 29, 2: 123-163.

 

Marks, Gary, Liesbet Hooghe, and Kermit Blanks. 1996. “European integration from the1980s: State-centric v. multi-level governance.” Journal of Common Market Studies 34, 3: 341-359.

 

Stone Sweet, Alec and Wayne Sandholtz. 1997. “European integration and supranational Governance.” Journal of European Public Policy 4, 3: 297-317.

 

Applied to European Security: Smith, Michael E. 2004. Europe’s Foreign and Security Policy. The Institutionalization of Cooperation. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press. Chapters 1 and 2.

 

24 March Week 5: Norms, Ideas and Identity + their Carriers (Constructivist Approaches)

 

Checkel, Jeffrey T. 1999. “Social Construction and European Integration.” Journal of European Public Policy 6, 4: 545-560.

 

Rathbun, Brian. 2004. Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. Ithaca: CornellUniversity Press. Chapter 1 and 2.

 

Sedelmeier, Ulrich. 2004. “Collective Identity.” In Walter Carlsnæs et al., eds. Contemporary European Foreign Policy. London: SAGE, pp. 123-140.

 

Parsons, Craig. 2002. “Showing Ideas as Causes: The Origins of the European Union.” International Organization 56, 1: 47-84.

 

Applied to European Security: Mérand, Frédéric. 2006. “Social Representations in the European Security and Defence Policy.” Cooperation and Conflict 41, 2: 131-152.

 

 

Part II. Actors and Processes in European Foreign and Security Policy

 

31 Week 6: National and EU Actors

 

Rathbun, Brian. 2004. Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Chapter 6.

 

Irondelle, Bastien. 2008. “European Foreign Policy: The end of French Europe?” Journal of European Integration 30, 1: 153-168.

 

Edwards, Geoffrey. 2006. “The New MemberStates and the Making of EU Foreign Policy.” European Foreign Affairs Review 11: 143-162.

 

Duke, Simon and Sophie Vanhoonacker. 2006. “Administrative Governance in the CFSP: Development and Practice.” European Foreign Affairs Review 11, 2: 163-182.

 

Cameron, Fraser and David Spence. 2004. “The Commission – Council Tandem in the Foreign Policy Arena.” In Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos, ed. The Changing European Commission. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

 

Juncos, Ana E. and Christopher Reynolds. 2007. “The Political and Security Committee: Governing in the Shadow.” European Foreign Affairs Review 12, 2: 127-147.

 

 

14 April Week 7: European Diplomacy

 

Bruter, M. 1999. “Diplomacy without a State: The External Delegations of the European Commission.” Journal of European Public Policy 6, 2: 183-205.

 

Duke, Simon. 2002. “Preparing for European Diplomacy?” Journal of Common Market Studies 40, 5: 849-870.

 

Hocking, Brian and David Spence. 2005. “Afterword: Towards a European Diplomatic System?” In Brain Hocking and David Spence, eds. Foreign Ministries in the European Union. Integrating Diplomats. London: Palgrave, pp. 287-305.

 

Cross, Mai’a. K. 2008. “A European Epistemic Community of Diplomats. In Paul Sharp and Geoffrey Wiseman, eds. The Diplomatic Corps as an Institution of International Society. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 221-245.

 

 

21 April Week 8: Networks

 

Eilstrup-Sangiovanni, Mette. 2009. “Varieties of cooperation. Government Networks in International Security.” In Miles Kahler, ed. Networked Politics. Agency, Power and Governance. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, pp. 194-227.

 

Hafner-Burton, Emilie and Alexander Montgomery. 2006. “Power Positions: International Organization, Social Networks and Conflicts.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50, 1:3-27

 

Sikkink, Kathryn. 2009. “The Power of Networks in International Politics.” In Miles Kahler, ed. Networked Politics. Agency, Power and Governance.  Ithaca: CornellUniversity Press, pp. 228-248.

 

Krahmann, Elke. 2005. “Security Governance and Networks: New Theoretical Perspectives in Transatlantic Security.” Cambridge Review of International Affairs. 18, 1: 19-34.

 

Regelsberger, Elfriede and Wolfgang Wessels. 2005. “The Evolution of the Common Foreign and Security Policy. A Case of an Imperfect Ratchet Fusion.” In Amy Verdun and Osvaldo Croci, eds. Institutional and Policy-Making Challenges to the EU in Wake of Enlargement. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

 

 

PART III. The EU in Action

 

28 April Week 9: EU Strategy and Strategic Culture

 

Posen, Barry R. 1984. The Sources of Military Doctrine. Ithaca: CornellUniversity Press. Chapter 1.

 

Bailes, Alyson J. K. 2005. “The European Security Strategy: An Evolutionary History.“ SIPRI Policy Papers No. 10.

 

Whitman, Richard. 2006. “Road Map for a Route March? (De-)civilianizing through the EU’s Security Strategy.” European Foreign Affairs Review 11: 1-15.

 

Rynning, Sten. 2003. “The European Union: Towards a Strategic Culture?” Security Dialogue 34, 4: 479-496.

 

Meyer, Christoph. 2005. “Convergence Towards a European Strategic Culture? A Constructivist Framework for Explaining Changing Norms.” European Journal of International Relations 11, 4: 523-549.

 

5 May Week 10: Material and Ideational Capabilities

 

Howorth, Jolyon. 2007. Security and Defence Policy in the European Union. Houndmills: Palgrave. Chapter 4.

 

Duke, Simon. 2003. “The rhetoric-resources gap in EU crisis management.” Eipascope 3: 2-8. http://www.eipa.eu/files/repository/eipascope/scop2002_3_1.pdf.

 

Sjursen, Helene. 2006. “The EU as a ‘”Normative’ Power: How Can This Be?” Journal of European Public Policy 13, 2: 235-251.

 

Merlingen, Michael. 2007. “Everything Is Dangerous: A Critique of `Normative Power Europe.“ Security Dialogue 38, 4: 435–453.

 

Grevi, Giovanni et al., eds. 2009. European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years (1999-2009). Paris: EUISS, pp. 69-114.

 

12 May Week 11: Military Crisis Management

 

Skim: Grevi, Giovanni et al., eds. 2009. European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years (1999-2009). Paris: EUISS, pp. 159-403.

 

Skim: Asseburg, Muriel and Ronja Kempin, eds. 2009. “The EU as a Strategic Actor in the Realm of Security and Defence? A Systematic Assessment of ESDP Missions and Operations.” SWP Research Paper 14.

 

 

Salmon, Trevor. 2005. “The European Security and Defence Policy: Built on rocks or sand?” European Foreign Affairs Review 10, 3: 359 – 379.

 

Biscop Sven. 2004. “Able and Willing? Assessing the EU's for Military Action.” European Foreign Affairs Review 9, 4: 509-527.

 

Giegerich, Bastian and William Wallace. 2004. “Not Such a Soft Power: the External Deployment of European Forces.” Survival 46, 2: 163-182.

 

Gross, Eva. 2009. The Europeanization of National Foreign Policy. Continuity and Change in European Crisis Management. Palgrave Macmillan. Chapter 2.

 

Friesendorf, Cornelius and Susan Penksa. 2008. “Militarized Law Enforcement in Peace Operations: EUFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina.“ International Peacekeeping 15, 5: 677-694.

 

 

19 May Week 12: Civilian Crisis Management: State Building and Security

 

Skim: Grevi, Giovanni et al., eds. 2009. European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years (1999-2009). Paris: EUISS, pp. 159-403

 

Skim: Asseburg, Muriel and Ronja Kempin, eds. 2009. “The EU as a Strategic Actor in the Realm of Security and Defence? A Systematic Assessment of ESDP Missions and Operations.” SWP Research Paper 14.

 

Merlingen, Michael and Rosa Ostraukaite. 2005. “ESDP Police Missions: Meaning, context and operational challenges.” European Foreign Affairs Review 10, 2: 215 – 235.

 

Kurowska, Xymena. 2008. “The Role of Missions in ESDP.“ In Michael Merlingen and Rosa Ostraukaite, eds. The European Security and Defence Policy: Implementation Perspective. London and New York: Routledge.

 

Korski, Daniel and Richard Gowan. 2009. Can the EU Rebuild Failing States? A Review of Europe’s Civilian Capacities. Brussels: European Council on Foreign Relations.

 

Kurowska, Xymena and Benjamn Tallis. 2009. “EU Border Assistance Mission to Ukraine and Moldova – Beyond Border Monitoring?“ European Foreign Affairs Review 14, 1: 47–64.

 

 

26 May Week 13: The EU is not Alone when it Comes to European Security

 

Grevi, Giovanni et al., eds. 2009. European Security and Defence Policy: the first ten years (1999-2009). Paris: EUISS, pp. 115-158.

 

Cornish, Paul. 2006. “EU and NATO: Co-operation or Competition?” Briefing Paper for the European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies of the Union, October 2006. http://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/pdf/research/niis/NATO_EU.pdf.

 

De Hoop Scheffer, Japp. 2007. “NATO and the EU: Time for a New Chapter.” Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, http://www.nato.int/docu/speech/2007/s070129b.html.

 

Economist, The. 2007. “Berlin Minus. There is no excuse for the failure of NATO and the EU to talk to each other.” (February 8): 34.

 

Daalder, Ivo and James Goldgeier. 2006. “Global NATO.” Foreign Affairs (September/October): 105-113 (available at http://www.brookings.edu/views/articles/daalder/2006sept_oct.pdf).

 

Deighton, Anne. 2002. “The European Security and Defence Policy.” Journal of Common Market Studies 40, 4: 719-41.

 

2 June Week 14 Concluding remarks

 

Cooper, Robert. 2002. “The New Liberal Imperialism.” The Observer (April 7) http://observer.guardian.co.uk/worldview/story/0,11581,680095,00.html